An animal control officer equipped with hotdog bits has managed to rescue a 15-pound dog that somehow found itself stuck on the roof of a Vancouver, Washington area house.

Homeowner Barry Klettke says he was backing out of his driveway one morning with his own dog, Bella, in the passenger seat when Bella growled.

He tells The Columbian he looked up to see what she was growling about, and there was the dog on his roof. He called 911.

Clark County animal control officer Patrick Higbie says he’s responded to calls involving birds stuck on roofs but never a dog. The Chihuahua mix was taken to the Humane Society for Southwest Washington.

Source: The Columbian, http://www.columbian.com

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Just Shooting the Breeze

A Washington state man who fired a shotgun in the air to chase away car prowlers says he was following the advice of Vice President Joe Biden.

Jeffrey Barton, of Vancouver, pleaded not guilty in a Clark County court to a charge of illegally discharging a firearm. The 52-year-old fired the shot when he thought people were breaking into his vehicles.

Outside of court, Barton told KOIN, “I did what Joe Biden told me to do. I went outside and fired my shotgun in the air.”

In an answer to a home defense question in February, the vice president said Americans don’t need semi-automatic weapons because a couple of blasts from a shotgun will scare off intruders.

Sheriff’s deputies admitted that’s not actually allowed, except in self-defense.